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Resolution of the human visual system in physical terms
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The Curious Studies of David Hu
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Are Luxury Genes a Direct Result of Epigenetics?
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Chemical Computers: Designing Glucose-Based Computers
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Could our nose and lungs filter tiny paint pieces
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What are the best references for neurogenesis?
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Medical How does chromosome number get halved in meiosis I?
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What Are Epigenetic Tags/Factors Made Of?
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Physics in Dentistry: Learn How It's Applied
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Was Dickinsonia One of the Earliest Multicellular Animals?
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Polio-like Disease Strikes Children
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Is Oxygen Used for More Than Just Respiration in the Body?
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How Can DNA and Big Data Be Used to Find You?
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Kill or incapacitate a pupa with sound?
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Tom Steitz, Nobel Laureate, Passes Away
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Degeneration of injured cells: granules in cloudy swelling
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Microarrays -- why do they have low reproducibility
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Practices, Laws, or Principles of living longer
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Why are family members different?
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What brain cells does glioblastoma affect?
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Could mushrooms be the key to saving bees?
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Medical Can Comatose Patients Undergo Surgery?
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What does it mean to be an old bacterium?
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Hibbing: physiological reactions ~ political orientation.... ?
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Can Consumer Genomics Help Uncover Hidden Health Risks in Huskies?
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Smelling the Past: Understanding Odour Molecules
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Medical Rib Area: Explore the Sternal Part
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Charging tRNA for Dummies: Amino Acid Attachment & CCA Explained
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Medical Sleeping immune system and effects
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Why do the males always initiate mating rituals?
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What is the structural level of fibrous proteins: secondary or tertiary?
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Can CRISPR-Cas9 Technology End Mosquitoes and Should We?
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How are pUC vectors designed for efficient sequencing of insert DNA?
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What do macrophages do with absorbed cell parts?
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Are progesterone levels more indicative of sexual drive than testosterone?
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Can Splinters and Fillings Join the Bloodstream?
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Medical What is the rationale behind blindly supplementing deficiencies?
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Why Can't WBC Attack Naegleria Fowleri?
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Has natural selection stopped affecting humans?
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Has a Single Mutation Ever Caused a Big Evolutionary Change?
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"Innateness" of the "innate immune system"?
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Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in sMRI?
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Medical Do one-piece dental implants exist yet?
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Why is sweat composed of water and salt?
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Medical Is Labyrinthitis a Lay Term or a Disease of the Labyrinth?
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How Does Thermodynamics Explain Work Done in Biological Systems?
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Ferocactus pottsi: Rarely Seen Flowering Cactus
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Medical Where is Memory Stored in the Brain?
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Medical Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: How does it work?
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Medical Differences in Procrastinator Brains
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How can a compost heap combust?
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Neutrophil nanosponges soak up proteins, reducing arthritis
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Fractional Flow Reserve and the physics behind it
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Producing TRPs: Is Genetically Modified Fungi an Option?
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Is the Brain the Origin of Our Thoughts, or Merely a Receiver?
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Eukaryotes have more freedom? (DNA)
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What Are Introns? Understanding Their Role in Gene Expression
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Inverted Protein: Does Sequence Matter?
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Can Exercise Help Reduce Stress in High-Intensity Work Environments?
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What Is Alpha-Complementation in Beta-Galactosidase?
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Medical Can a Sedentary Lifestyle Stunt Growth?
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About counter current mechanism
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Making a record of what we feel when we touch something
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Stinkbug Biological Control Goes Wild
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How does the body know what to sense?
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Death toll from radiation exposure wrt. Chernobyl?
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Electric field distribution in the brain
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Maximizing Brain Health: Effective Exercises for Memory and Mental Fitness
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Undergoing major personality changes in early adulthood - how common?
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Seed Germination: Caesalpinia Seeds | Growing Guide
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Auto-analyzers & Taxonomy, Linnaean vs. Cladistics; SOA?
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Carl Woese's Inflence on Modern Biology
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What kingdoms are blue-green, green & red algae?
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Which gene expressions start to happen in an embryo
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Atoms in Living vs. Dead Cells: A Comparison
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Do certain cells do better than others?
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Considering a career as Radar technician: cancer risk?
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What is This Unearthly Creature? Is it a Starfish?
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Can we mimic Turreptosis cellular reversal in humans?
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Can DNA reveal a person's enzyme deficiencies or lack of enzymes?
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570 million year old animal life form
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Fibromyalgia, alternative med, cbd
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Primate Brain Synapse Counts - Comparing Humans & Chimps
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What Exciting Areas of RNA Research Are Emerging on RNA Day?
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Medical OSL Dosimetry and Build Up Region
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Possible to Sober Up (w/o signs of influence) In 50 Min.?
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Shiba dog's DNA found to be most similar to the Wolf but....
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Detailed Structure of the Fruit Fly Brain
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All or certain types of beef linked to cancer and cow milk
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Can proteins and fats undergo fermentation like carbohydrates?
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Evolution, the Brittanica.com article: is anyone here...?
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Eradication may be Possible due New Treatment for Yaws
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Can bat detectors disturb bats and cause them to leave their roost?
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Medical Is nitric oxide good or bad for the body?
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Electrical current through the Human Body
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Insect Endocrinology: How Similar are Insect and Human Nerve Cells?
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Study: more genes expressed from the father
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CRISPR and unwanted DNA alterations
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Medical Why do doctors assume pneumonia is bacterial?
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"bushy" human evolution - commentary in Cell
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